[Vic1947]

Welcome aboard, old friends and new! I'll try to keep this moving along.

When I first started on this car back in the 90's, it was all about Pro Street. My initial vision for the car was big motor, big tires, lots of hook but capable of cruising and the occasional car show. Over the years, things have changed along with my vision of the car. But in the early years of the build, my focus was straight line performance.

At first, I worked on cleanup and parts acquisition. At the time, I also had a '67 Chevy II that I planned to sit on an Alston chassis and stuff with BBC power. I had a thumping 454 on the engine stand ready for it when life and work intervened. I was transferred to Kirkland, WA and had to divest myself of the Chevy II project as there was no way to take it with me. As luck would have it, my ex Pro Stock partner had built a 460 Ford engine for a customer who was unable to pay for it. So I traded him straight across for the BBC and had my engine. I'd painted a crew cab dually for my friend Bob Carpenter (owner of Trans-King Transmissions and Converters) so he covered my C6 and converter. So now I had both a car and a drivetrain. We packed it all up and made the trek to Seattle in the fall of '91.

I had the exterior of the Ford media blasted while in Houston, but the frame was still pretty grungy. Once we got settled into a rental house in WA, I began the process of cutting up the frame and floorboards. I grafted a ladder bar suspension with coil overs out back, but found out quickly that very few patch panels existed for the trunk and floor. So I ended up making my own. The fuel cell in the trunk was on the Pro Street checklist. Long gone now.